Garment-hook



(No-Model) J. H. SWIFT.

GARMENT HOOK.

No. 582,444. Patented-May 11, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAY H. SVIFT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 582,444, dated May 11,1897.

Application filed April 26, 1895.

To all whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAY H. SWIFT, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Hooks, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a garment-hook which is formed with aspring-jaw and a short bill and having its parts joined or meeting, sothat the hook is practically endless, the advantages being hereinafterset forth.

.Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a hook embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a section thereof on line 00 00, Fig. 1.Fig. 3 represents a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 4 represents a planview of an eye member that may be employed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a hook formed of the sidemembers B B, the bill O, the eyes E D, the spring-jaw F, and theterminal portion G, rearward of said jaw F. The bill O is a continuationof the side members B, and the jaw F interlies said side members and isa continuation of the eye D. The portion G is continuous of the rear endof the jaw F and extends to and joins the end of the eye E, as at a, theseveral parts named being formed of a single piece of wire, it beingseen that when the eye member-is seated on the bill the jaw preventsimproper displacement of the same.

The jaw F extends obliquely from the inner portion of the eye D overportion of the rear member G, so that its bend which is within the billis at the center of said bill. Then said back member extends obliquelyfrom said bend to the inner portion of the eye E, so that a twist isimparted to said jaw and member, which imparts great resiliency to saidjaw .-the latter being a freedom of motion backward and forward, as theupper end of the rear member and the inner end of the eye E are the endsof the piece of wire of which the device is formed, substantially asdescribed.

It will be noticed that the bill of the hook is made short and thebulging portion of the Serial No. 547,214. (No model.)

jaw F partly enters said bill, whereby the thin wire of the eye membermay occupy the small space of the bill, while said member may be readilydisengaged by slight pressure or power, so that when the eye member isseated in the bill it may rest safely therein.

On the side members, near the back II of the bill O, are shoulders J,which project in the direction toward the bill, the tendency of which isto deflect the eye member against the jaw, so that said member cannotpass under the jaw, and when it is to be removed it may ride up saidshoulders J J and thus more readily press against the jaw and force backthe same in order to admit the passage of the eye member through thebill.

As the portion G back of the jaw joins the eye D, which is virtually theending of the hook at the point or place of commencement of the same, itcauses the hook to be formed practically endless, and the ends of thewire are not exposed, which otherwise is an objectionable feature, owingto the liability of the same to cut and scratch the hands and injure.

the garment or article to which the hook is applied.

The front of the eye member K is rightlined, so that said eye member maybe hooked into a smaller space than if of oval form.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and Patent, is-

1. A hook having side members with shoulders thereon, a bill continuousof said side members attaching-eyes at the rear of said side members, ajaw continuous of one of said eyes'having a bend at its front betweenand adjacent to said shoulders, and an under and rearwardly-projectingportion continuous of said bend and terminating near the other edge.

2. A hook formed of a continuous piece of wire, and consisting of theside members B, B, having the shoulders J thereon, the bill 0 connectedwith the front end of said members and the attaching-eyes D, E,connected with their rear ends, and a jaw F continuous of one of saideyes and between said side members, said jaw having a bend at its frontend adjacent to said shoulders J, and an under and rearwardly-projectingportion G, termidesire to secure by Letters nating at the end of theother eye, the bend of said j aw projectinginto the bill of the hook andthe parts 'named'being combined substantially as described.

3. A hook having a short bill and side membets, a jaw and back memberbetween said side members, fastening-eyes connected with said side andback members and jaw and l shoulders between said bill and side members,adjacent to the bend of the jaw and rear I0 member, substantially asdescribed.

' JAY H. SXVIFT.

Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEI WM. 0. \VIEDERSHEIM.

